The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Originally released June 26, 1964, the U.S. edition of the soundtrack album A Hard Day's Night spent 14 weeks at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard album charts. It included eight Lennon-McCartney songs written for the film—"A Hard Day's Night," "Tell Me Why," "I'll Cry Instead," "I'm Happy Just To Dance With You," "I Should Have Known Better," "If I Fell," "And I Love Her," and "Can't Buy Me Love"—as well as instrumental versions of three of those songs and "Ringo's Theme (This Boy)," recorded by George Martin with a studio orchestra. This audio CD is part of a series of limited edition "mini LP replicas" by Capitol, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' American debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. Unlike most of the remixed and remastered Beatles music available today, it is a faithful duplication of the original U.S. version of the album—the same songs in the same order, as well as the "Americanized" sound mix—in both mono and stereo versions, for a total of 24 tracks. The CD is even packaged in a scaled-down copy of the original album cover, complete with the paper liner sleeve.